According to the Daily Caller, the FBI is expanding their investigation into Bernie Sanders’ wife over allegations of bank fraud.
From the Daily Caller:
Federal investigators are conducting interviews in Florida regarding accusations Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ wife, Jane Sanders, defrauded a bank while serving as president of the now-defunct Burlington College.
Allegations Jane Sanders falsified loan documents to expand the campus of Burlington College, which collapsed into bankruptcy in May 2016, swirled more than a year prior. The Daily Caller News Foundation first broke the news of the allegations against Mrs. Sanders in March 2015. The Department of Justice and the FBI will not confirm the existence of an investigation, but recent interviews conducted by officials from the FBI and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), independently confirmed to TheDCNF, suggest an investigation is ongoing.
The allegations are a little complex, here’s how the DC explains it:
Mrs. Sanders served as president of Burlington College from 2004 until 2011, before reportedly leaving with a $200,000 severance package. As part of an ambitious plan to boost enrollment at the college, Sanders had the college take on $10 million in debt to purchase a piece of land to expand the campus.
Sanders stated in a 2010 loan application she had secured $2.6 million in promised donations to pay for the land purchase, which helped secure a $6.5 million loan from the People’s United Bank. Only $676,000 ever materialized over the next four years and the college defaulted on the loans, eventually going bankrupt in May 2016.
According to them, the FBI asked questions like, “Was there any collusion between Jane Sanders and the bank? Did she falsify records in order to get the loan from the bank?”
That would be a swift kick in the trousers to Bernie, who has been riding the banks forever:
We should not be country in which we have banks to big to fail and bankers too big to jail.
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) November 17, 2015
You can’t take on Wall Street banks and billionaires by taking their money. #DebateWithBernie
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) December 20, 2015
I guess his wife disagrees because she didn’t mind taking the money from a bank!! *allegedly*
OK here’s another open thread. Post all the weird reports about Eric Trump and Jared Kushner, because el Scoopo said he would fire me if I posted them up here. Just kidding!! Sorta. Now it’s time for margaritas.
Or you can discuss the inherent sexism of the headline where we refer to Jane Sanders as Bernie’s wife instead of Jane Sanders. DAMN YOU PATRIARCHY!!!!